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• OSCE CALLS FOR ‘POLITICAL DIALOGUE’ IN ARMENIA

  A senior diplomat representing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Monday that both the Armenian government and the radical opposition are to blame for the bloody post-election ...

• MORE TER-PETROSIAN ALLIES ARRESTED

  At least five more prominent allies of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian, among them two parliament deputies, have been arrested on charges stemming from their active participation in Saturday’s opposition ...

• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DEMANDS PROBE INTO ARMENIAN CRACKDOWN

  A leading international human rights organization has demanded that the Armenian government launch a “prompt and independent” investigation” into the bloody confrontation between security forces and opposition ...

• DASHNAKS DEFEND EMERGENCY RULE

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  The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Monday defended the imposition of a state of emergency in Yerevan, saying that the post-election protests staged by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian ...

• TER-PETROSIAN ‘UNDER HOUSE ARREST,’ RALLY BROKEN UP

  By Ruzanna Khachatrian, Astghik Bedevian and Emil Danielyan   

• ARMENIAN OPPOSITION ENDS PROTESTS AFTER TER-PETROSIAN APPEAL

  

• U.S. CALLS FOR END TO VIOLENCE IN ARMENIA

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• MORE TER-PETROSIAN ALLIES ARRESTED

• TER-PETROSIAN DEFIANT AS SUPPORTERS CLASH WITH POLICE

  By Ruzanna Stepanian and Emil Danielyan   

• TER-PETROSIAN CONTINUES RALLIES AMID MORE ARRESTS

  By Astghik Bedevian and Karine Kalantarian   

• ARMENIAN POLICE DEFEND USE OF FORCE

  By Astghik Bedevian   

• OSCE CALLS FOR ‘POLITICAL DIALOGUE’ IN ARMENIA

• SARKISIAN APPEALS TO ARMENIANS AS PROTESTS GROW

  By Emil Danielyan, Astghik Bedevian and Ruzanna Stepanian   

• DASHNAKS ACCEPT SARKISIAN VICTORY

  By Emil Danielyan   

• 1842  Birth of the great Armenian benefactor, petroleum magnat Alexander Mantashian in Tbilissi. He made donations to the Church (Ejmiadsin) and founded schools in Constantinople, Tbilissi, and Kareen -among other places. He also built the new building of the Nersisian School.
• 1872  The "Union for Salvation" is formed in Van (Western Armenia).
• 1878  Treaty of San Stefano signed between Russia and Turkey. Article 16 of the San Stefano Treaty guaranteed the security of Armenians in Western Armenia under the Turkish Empire. Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin, however, annuled these guarantees and the majority of the Armenian lands were given to the Turks.
• 1905  Start of the Armenian - Tatar War.
• 1918  Signature of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Russia and Germany.
• 1918  Signnature of the Russian - Turkish supplemental treaty in connection with the Peace Treaty between Russia, on the one hand, and Germany, Austria - Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the other.
• 1920  The Boshevik "Workers' Struggle" Armenian newspaper is published in New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia).
• 1930  Opening of the National Seminary.
• 1935  Birth of writer Hrant Matevossyan.
• 1943  The first volume of the novel "Vardanank", written by Derenik Demirchyan, is published during World War 2 (the Great Patriotic War). Soldiers passed it from hand to hand on the front.
• 1953  Opening of the Armenian Manuscript Depository: the Matenadaran (Architect - Mark Grigoryan). The Matenadaran has more than 13 000 ancient manuscripts and more than 100 000 archived documents.
• 1955  Hovhannes Issakov is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet (USSR).
• 1958  Yerevan's Matenadaran (Manuscript Depository) is declared a Research Institute.

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